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THE GREEKSBOIIO’ HERALD. VOL. 11. . THE HERALD, PUBLISHED WEEKLY AX GREENSBORO, GA., BY ar T3L SPEINCE Torino. One copy per annum, - - -•-- $2 50 j 'I, ■! J-i-LLJ 1 ~ m Schedule FOR Ml CON AND AIGISTA RAILROAD. Leave Milledgevllle ■> JO a m Leave Carr’s cos ™ Leave Deavreaux ? *“ am Leave Sparta a “ Leave G ulverton J 25 a ru Leave Mayfield 7 60am Leave Warronton B -6 a m Arrive at Camak 8 55 a m RETURN TRAIN Leave Gamak 17 30 p m Leave Warrenton 1 ““ P a Leave May6eid ' j? R m Leave Gnlverton * *“ P m Leave Sparta f 40 p m Leave Deavreaux jj 10 p m Leave Garrs ? ?n P,m Arrives at Milledgeville 4 10pm Cliange oi* Schedule on the Georgia Railroad ONand after Thursday, Qctobor 10tb, 1867, the Passenger Trains on the Georgia Railroad will run as follows : Day Passenger Train. (Daily .Sunday Excepted,) Loave Augusta at J 30 a m. Leave Atlanta at V-m ™ Arrive at Augusta at pm Arrive at Atlanta at ,jJ T :a Night Passenger Train Leave Augusta at 8-15 p m Loave Atlanta at 5 45 p. m Arrive at, Atlanta at 3.00 a m Arrive at Augusta at 04 5 am Passenger for ,Sparta, Washington and A'lieu Ua, must take Day Passeaget Trutn fiat Au gusto an Atlanta Passengers for West Paint. Montf ornery Selma, Mobile, and New Orleans, must leave Auguta onNiglit Passenger Train at 7.15 p, m, to moke close connections, Passengers for Nashville, Grand Juncf in Memphis, Louisville, and St. Louis, con take either train and make close eonnec Tickets and Baggage Checked through to. he above places. Pullman’s Pallace Sleeping Cars on all Night Passenger Trains. U W COLE octlS -ts General Superintendent Atlanta A W. P. Rail road L. P. GRANT, Siiprrcmlcnt. Leave Atlanta 7 00 a in Arrive at West Point 12 ?„ “ m Leave West Point 12 40 p m Arrive at Atlanta 5 3u p m GREENSBORO’ IIOTEI. . rpilE undorsignad hasro- i -1 JL opened the above nam m , cc Hotel at toe old stand opposite the Court House where he will at all times be pleased to-sei his friends and the public generally. Tin house has been, renovated, and the table will be ID erally supplied. Mr W. T Doster will be in readiness with good horses and vehicles to eonvey passengers to any desired point. '■ J. J. DOHEfiTY c pt2o—tf Aiignsla Hotel. AUGUSTA, : : i : GEORGIA S. M. JONES. Proprietor. rnTIIS Leading. Fa°hionable Hotel, has j| been newly and elegantly furnished, J nnd is nowprepatod to extend a “Georgia Welcome.” . . . •_ , Col. GEO. 11. JONES, Chief Clerk, may 10—ts ~~ i -ntgr-f-rirY j AMIiRICAIVJIOTEJL I * U Alabama Street ATI, ,XTA, b® a I WHITE iWllftrAjH?, Proprietors, j Bryson and Wjky-C erks Baggage carfiett to an*, from Depot free of' charge, . i'S.A.S 4 J lUiTUB ' S s*r\*+ • AI G?ISTA, : Mils') o furnished an I refitted, -uoeur parsed .1' hjr any ilutal m>w hi '»»b to lho "Ntt/ JC I* M. rjc JZk- Ml Ji* jm. TMT JMIL JC MFCS Tlio Atlanta Intelligencer JARED IRWIN WHITAKER Proprietor. Subscription and Advertising Ra'es T£lt..iS OP SUBSCRIPTION, Daily, per month 8 1 0C Daily, 12 months 10 0C Weekly, 6 months 2 qC Weekly, 1 year 3 1)0 Single cup ; cs at the counter 105 Sing e copies to JN ews Bovs find Agents RATES Os ADVERTISING For each square of 10 lines or less, for the first insertion 81, and each subsequent insertion 50 cents oct26— ATLANTA GA, J. M. HOLBROOK, HATTER Whitehall Street, ATLANTA GEORGIA Still on Hand wi'h a good Selection of FALL AND WINTER HATS Os the Vary Latest Styles which he offers to ;f : „t Wholesale or Retail, CHEAP FOR CASH! Also a Fine Selection of LADIES. AND MISSES FURS hW Sable. Sets Mink, Set s Fi ch Sets Squirrels, Sests Colored Muskrat. sFreneh Coney. Children’s Set e and Blue Sets,ranging in Price mos $ QTO S2OO Highest Cash Price Paid for Furs of all Kinds, Barer. Otter. Mink, Musk Rat Wild Cat r House Cat* Coon, Fox Opossum, Rabbit, Deer Hides, Bear Skins. ’ J. M. HOLLBROOK oct26-!m Whitehall street, Atlanta, Qa M. HYAMS & CO. Cenral Commission Merchants At Dorties old Stand i7Q Broad sf AUGUSTA GA. •——And Dealer! in FINEGROCERIES WINES, LIQUORS, SEGARS SHOES and HATS Lime Plaster and Cement always on hand and for sale. sep2B—6m NEVv GOODS THE subscribers are constantlyreceiving fresh accessions to their present desira ble stock of GENERAL MERCHANDISE, and the publii, as well as their friends, are respectfully ’nvited to favor them with call, Their assortment of DRESS GOODS Hats, Shoes, School Books ; &c.. arcaraple and are off ■•'*3 at prices that will not fnilto glvesatlstoction. may3-tf HOWELL A HEART, R. M. ROSE, W. K. FOX, 0. A. V. ROSE R. M. ROSE & CO WHOLESALE DEALERS IN wu.w:s, wines, whiskies, If [v'-S ■ . . * ' • , B. and Street ’ ’ & 'inis Block ATLANTA, CFOR!Lt » * rE p irtieulaly SoHolt orders from Merch \\ unto in neighboring vines and villnge* beleivirg hat we c«n suit them «« "N I PUD’KS AND QUALITY, as Nortnarn de*>- GREENSBORO’, GA., DECEMBER 7, 1867. POETRY. FALLING LEAVES. They are falling, slowly falling, Thick unon the forest side Severed from the noble branches, I Where they wuved in beauteous pride. I They are falling in the valleys, I Where the early violets spring. And the b rds in early spring time i First their dulcet music sing. Tlnv are falling, sadly falling, Close beside our cottage door ; Pale and faded, like the loved ones, They have gone forever more. They are falling and the sunbeams Shine iu beauty soft aruund ; Yet the faded leaves are falling— Falling on the messy ground. They are falling on the streamlet, / Where the silvery waters flew, And upon the placid bosom Onward with the blue wators go. Tney are falling in the churoh-yard, Wber - our kindred sweetly sleep, Wnere the idle winds of summer Softly o’er the loved ones sweep. They are falling, ever falling, to hen the autumn broezes sigh— When the stars in beauty glistru Rright upon the midnight sky. They are falling when the tempest Moanr like ocean’s hollow roar, When the tuneless winds and billows Sadly sigh for evermore. They are falling, they are falling, While suddened thoughts still go To the sunny days of childhood, In the dreamy long ago And their faded hues remind us Os the blasted hopes and dreams, Faded like the falling leaflets Cast upon the ioy streams. Spring at the foot of the Dill. There’s a dear, sweet spot ’way down in the rnat. To which my heart ever turns with a sigh, And my tears fab fast, as leaves ia the bla st, When the winds of autumn are hurrying by. 'Tis the happy place where I drank my fill And cooled my burning thirst with joy, From the gn hing spring at tne foot of the hill, v, he it 1 uranic when I w*g a boy. — In the old stone house standing high above, With its honest front and open door, Dwelt tne dearest frends of my boyhood's love In the gay and happy times of yore. On their love and friendship reusing still, I dream with sweet but saddened joy. Os the gushing spring at the foot of tue hill, Whcro I drank when I wusa boy. I look around me and the friends are gone, I to ho played with me there in my boyhood’s time, And stii) through this world I am wandering on— Now dreaming a dream anl now muttering a rhyme. Bet on through the mist of memory still, Like music heard from the land of joy. Comes the gushing spring at the foot of the hill W here I drank when I was a boy. In the valley below where the maplo shade Grows dark on the mound of her early grave ; Lies sleeping forever a gentle mr.id, Who was lovely as God to car.h e’er gave. And the stream flows on in its music stvll As it cornea with a hymn of joy, From the gushing spring at the foot of the hill, V\ here I drank when I was a boy. A Mother and her Seven Sons. A Jewish mother and her seven sons were brought before Antiocus charged with having refused to worship his idol. The king addressed them separately, and began with the eldest by commanding him to worship the idol. ‘I cannot,’ said he: ‘for my God has com manded me, saying. ‘I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out the land of Egypt.” This refusal enraged the King, and he immediately ordered that the boy should be killed on the spot. The second boy was then Brought forth ‘Acknowledge my idol as one of tby gods,’ said the king, ‘How can If’ replied the boy. ‘The l»w vd'« me ‘thou shall-Irevc bo other geds be fore me.’ The king, enftiged at his obstinacy, had him executed *s the third son was led in. Antiocus then lowered his d-emacids by asking bim merely to bow down before the idol- but the boy said; •I dare uot. The word of God commands me, Thou sbalt not bow down thyself be- Orc them,' and he was executed. The fourth son was theu ordered to ac knowledge the idol merely as a divine powv er who influenced the earth. No,’ said he: ‘/or it is saief how therefore this day and consider in thing heart that the Lord lie is God in the cn above and upon the earth beneath: nnd there is noie else.’ Having thus teluscd to gotoply pifh the king's wirt he to? was led for.L to 'death, and theTiTlh Son btought in. The king now a. ked still and only and , boy to ~h >v •to*, (del some saoriuces to any good save uu’o the Lord only, Shall be utterly destroyed,” The king, enraged at being Ihus repent edly foiled, ordered him to be put to death also. The sixth son was called to the kings pre sence and was askid not to embrace idola try, but only to deny his faith. No, said the lad, ‘for God hafl thus spok en to Israel, saviug. ‘The Lord ha* anoint ed thee thiS day to be his peouliar people.’ He too, was ordered to be put to death At length the mother and her seventh son, a mere cliMd, the only Burvivors of the noble baud of martyrs, were led before An tiocus. lie tried all his powerk of persua- j feion to make the child do his bidding but iu vain, liven his hard heart began to i melt, and he woald gladly have saved tile ; child, but he could not, for thousands were j crowding around his throne, and all bis royal dignity would have been lost if it up- I peared that he was obliged lo yield. On ouecondition,’said lie addressing the child, ‘will I spare thy life. I -will drop this signet ring of mine; pick it up and thou shalt be saved.' But the boy perceived the king’s device. ‘What!’ .(hid lie, ‘shall Ibo more mindful of thine honor than of my God !’ And the brave boy’s Words sealed his doom. ‘Let me kiss my boy before his death,’ ( asked the mother. She kissed him and said, -When thou art ia heaven and see Abraham, our ancestor, tell him he Ims a rival, tor he erected an altai for the sacrifice oi one son, butl have seven a tars lor th_ sacrifice of seven sons.’ The heroic mother did not long survive her noble eons. A Horrible Occurrence. Never in our experience as journalists, says the Bawling Green (Ky.j Democrat,' has it been our duty to chronicle an occur 7 rence more horrid in its details than the one we are about to relate. The sad '£<iir that left a widowed moth gy cbilrP'/s. aid for the time being almost berert of reason. tiSppinerl aflbmtV fße lWb u It., in the adjoining county of Aliena short distance from Warren county lihe, and in the vicinity of Anthony's Mill. Tho heart-rending details, as related to us by persons of unquestionable veracity, are about thesSome two month since, Mis. j Blankenship, a lady of respectability, lost; her husband by disease, nnd was left with i three children, (wo interesting boys and a little infant gir.l. just large enough to walk alo c and beguile the lonely hour- of the mother with its innocent prattle. On tbo 16th ult., the mother, Mrs. Blankenship, for (he purpose of washing clethos, repair ed to the spring branch near the house iu the locality referred to, taking her three children, with her, the bouse dog following behind. She had been engaged in washing but a short time when the dog was heard harking incessantly on the bill near by.— Thinking that the dog bad possibly treed a raccoon orTud a rabbit at bay, the two lit tle boys proposed going at once to secure the game. With the mother’s consent the little felloes started off in’hlgli glee. Alas! better had they never been born. On reaching the spot where the dog v as hark ing, they saw'a short distance from the dog a large object Coiled at the foot of a vtnmp, in a hostile attitude. keCp’ng the dog at bay. They looked but a moment. Eager only to capture the supposed game and not thinking of danger, nor knowing the nature of the prey, they approached the hideous monetcr that in fatality of at tack “outvenoms all the worms of Nile.” The oldest of the two boys approached first: with bis little hands outstretched and his lace aglow at the prospect of his prize, he said, ‘l’ll get him, .brother.’ One more and he rushed to a death more Icyr'i bie and speedy thau were the torture* of fabled Laocoou. With one dart of bis lorkt ed tongue, with one death-rattle of his tail the huge rattlesnake—for it was nothing less—drew IN his scaly folds and with one dart for.- ,1 planted his euvsnouaeJ fangs ia the flesh of tho boy, and left the d-adly poison coursing hot through his yourg veins. Again and agaimvas the boy bitten by the fatal reptile till he tell ex hausted in the coils of the monster. The oilier little fellow rushed forward to the relief of his little brother, and he also received the deadly fangs of the serpent in «nve al places. The screams of the boys alarmed the mother, who*wag still washing nt the branch, and leaving her baby girl ■she ran frantically to the spot. Wbat a sight there met her gaze ! Butrld with poison, sv. often, black, and bitten in many place.. one of her boys was already dead and the other from eause.- The snake had crawled away, and the liv ing boj Jived just. Ion;' enough to Ifll the circumstances of their death, (jverwhqlm hed' v itfc an intensity of agony which 11,0 t- her of h r little girl at (he branch and h ir lied back. On reaching the spot, horiibio as it may seem, she found that the little girl had walked to the wash-tub, Into which she had Tallen head foremost and was di owned, ■ar.d it too was gong.’ The mother's cup of misery was full; not another drop could be added. Bereft of children, and almost of reason, siio sank under the accumulated horrors of the hour. Assistance was pro cured the heart-crushed woman, and the re mains ol her little nestlings were taken charge of and cared for, A short time af ter a large rattlesnake, with thirteen rat tles, was killed near the spot where the boys w* re bitten. • Th- * created a profound se isation in the c . nity, and has soarcely a par allel cm i; : the exciting annals of our ear ly and h .rdy pioneers. A Cool Husband. There is one sensible married man, says an exchange, in this State. He is a soldier and was ropoited to have been killed, but ; was only to prisoner. Hu returned home I to find that his wife hKd turned anew leaf jin the marriage service, and that another | inan occupied his seat in the chimney cor ner. Did he go to work slaughtering the fa'se wife and new husband ? Nos much. — He walked in and said:— ‘Well, old gal, how is things?” ‘Putty good. Bill,’said the dofible mar ried woman, not taken aback greatly. •Which do you prefer, the old or the new love ?’ She hesitated for an instant, and then said: ‘I don’t like to hurt your fe lings, but—. but’— ‘Oh, spit right out. Don’t mind my feel ings nor the other chap’s? I won’t be an gry if you come down a little on ray vani ty. Count on mo being amiable. I won’t cut up rusty if you should go hack on me.’ ‘l’m glad you're so thoughtful, Bill: and T ackhowledge that. I do like my present husband best, but if anything should hap yfdff fi,‘7!Tui;-T‘KiffotJ'hobfcdy ‘ eTSS7 srmrtS sc soon join fortunes with again as you.’ ‘That a the way (o talk. I’ll now bid you goodbyl', hoping that no accideDt will happen to the other fellow, and that he will live long to enjoy your delightful society- Good day. ’ And tho careless husband traveled off, with his knapsack on his back, whistling, in cherry, clear tone. -The girl i RU be hind me.’ Worth knowing. It is stated that a hungry man who sits down before a pound of bcufsteak. tender, juicy and an inch thick, and eats it, will find upon analysis, that sixty-five por cent, of his steak was water; that eightean per cent, will goto give him an aldermauic flcshuess, and that fourteen per cent, is as signed to warm him, and m .ke him feel comfortable on a cold day. Os the flesh forming ingredients, according to Dr. Playfair, every one, on an average, re quires ninety-two pounds annually to keep up a proper bodily condition. li it Is uot obtained from steaks, theu it must he sc* cured from soinetluDg else. Cheese is a flesh former, [3O percent.) abd takeu with beer speedily conceals alt ti aces of unsight ly bones '1 wo ounces of flesh-formers per diem will keep a man alive if tie is pot forced to labor, hut hard labor requires six or the body will ruu short of starch and sugar, and go behind in Isealth and sirens'll- In 100 parts of wb at there are 10 pounds of flesh, but there is nearly double (ft? a mount iu the tame quantity of oatmeal A Bfuiitiful Lfffttd. ! They tell a story that one day Rabbi Ju dah and his brethren sat in the Church on a ; fa*’ and ■ disp-nting about rest. One said it 1 r . iflfieiont wealth, yet without and sail it was lame and (praise "it! third said It was posess j r to rule the'Stale, 1 he fuurtb 1 - .nust b* only in the old age of one ’ who ib Hch. powerful, famous and sflrroun* ! .led by children and childrens children.— j The flfihsaid it were all iu vain unless 8 j man kept all the ritual of Mosts. And | Ua’obi Jud-tb. the vent ruble, the lalitotof tbo bretbrau, said: “Yg have spoken wise ly, but one thing more is necessary. .-He only can find rest who to„all thingsaddeth. LLbis —that he hath kept the traditions of the i elders. ” There sat a fair-haired boy, plays tug with lilieaju his lap, rud hoanug the j talk, droppt <1 them in ustouUimieut from - bis baud; and. looked up—that boy ol twelve -I—arid—arid said* ‘Nay, father, be only oan find reel who loves his brolMr as hita*efl, wftb his yhole heart and soul. lie is ’gi.ater ’'.hah fame, wealth, aud power, byppiqr tby a ‘than a h*pphome without, ik tie tin* thaj ISO. 32. I gave her a rose and I gave her a ring, and asked her to .Gar ry me theu ; but she sent them all back, insemsiblo thing, and said she'd no notion of men. I told her I'd oceans of money and goods, anti tried to frighten her with a growl ; -but she answered she wasn't brought up in thb woods to bo scared by the screech of an owl.— I called her a beggar and every** thing bad ; I slighted her features and form . till at length 1 succeed ed in getting her nmd, and then she raged l.ke a ship in a storm. And then in a moment I turned and smiled, and called her my an gel and all, and she fell iu my arms like a wearisome child, and ex-, claimed, ‘We will marry this fall/ Two of Them. —A young fellow whose better half had just present ed him with a pair ot bouncing twins, attended ehuich on Sunday. During the discourse the clergy man lot ked right at our innocent friend, au I, said in a tone of thrill ing eloquence :• ‘Young man you have an important responsibility thrust upon you,’ Tho newly pledged dad, supposing the prea - cher alluded to his peculiar home event, considerably startled the audience by exclaiming : ‘Yes, I have two ol them,’ Ji Believer. —Some time since a gentleman died in the town of X, wao during his life, refused to be-* lieve in anotuer world. Two or three weeks after his demise, his wile received,‘through a medium, a communication, which read as follows : “Dear wife—l now lieve. Please send me my tbitt clothes.” A dilapidated old darkey ia whjlo \va.tc.dlig the monkeys in a menagerie in that city, on Friday, spake tbusly i “Dem childen got too much sense to come outeu dat cage ; white folks cut dar tails off and • set 'em to votin' and makin Consci-* tewtions.” ‘Dui ! D’ye See Da t ?’—The radical negroes of Nashville are disappointed in the new (radical) ‘fierlire.’ They arrest them just as the old force did. An old darkey was heard to j esent it thusly : ‘Dah f d’ye see dat ? Fore God, dat's de sccon’ time I’se seed dat af man cum ’long here to-day wid a nigger. Thought dem folks not gwiuC ttf ’rest us when doy got iu!’ Wear your learning, like your watch, in a privato pocket, and dorrt pull it out to show that you have one ; but if you are asked what o’clock it is, tell it. Try this, some of you ; Fasten ti nail or key to a string, and suspend it to your thum and finger, and tho nail will oscillate like a pendulum. Let some oue place his open hand under the tail, and it will change to a circular motion. Then let a third person place his hand upou yorr shoulder, and the nail be comes iu a Rioafent stationary. m exchange says ; “If our wife wanted to run away with another man) we would wish her God speed for we think too much of her to she her want for anything.’ A gentleman called on a rich inisar, and fouDd him at the tabic codcavoiing to catch a fly. Presently he succeeded iu entrap ping one, which he immediately put into the sugar-bowl and shut down the cover, — The gentleman asked for an explanation of this sftgular sport. ‘‘l’ll tell you,” replied the miser, a triumphant grin overspreading his countenance as he spoke, “I want to as certain if the servants steal the sugar.” ■ <» *. * Now that ‘tilting hoops'are go ing out of lashion, let ons thing be e iid in their favor—the wearers of them were never liable to arrest | for no visible means of {support.’ . 1 'A man in Algiers. so 1 much whiskey that the mosquitoes